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Pteris
Taxonomy
Pteris was named by Linnaeus (1753). It is extant.
It was assigned to Pterideae by Gardner and Ettingshausen (1879); to Polypodiaceae by Knowlton (1919) and Chandler (1963); to Pteridoideae by I (2016); and to Pteridaceae by Kirchner (1831), Chauhan (1991), Liu et al. (1996) and Huang et al. (2023).
It was assigned to Pterideae by Gardner and Ettingshausen (1879); to Polypodiaceae by Knowlton (1919) and Chandler (1963); to Pteridoideae by I (2016); and to Pteridaceae by Kirchner (1831), Chauhan (1991), Liu et al. (1996) and Huang et al. (2023).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1753 | Pteris Linnaeus |
| 1831 | Pteris Kirchner |
| 1879 | Pteris Gardner and Ettingshausen p. 32 |
| 1919 | Pteris Knowlton |
| 1963 | Pteris Chandler p. 30 |
| 1991 | Pteris Chauhan |
| 1996 | Pteris Liu et al. |
| 2016 | Pteris I |
| 2023 | Pteris Huang et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Pteris Linnaeus 1753
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†Pteris affinis Lesquereux 1873
†Pteris bournensis Gardner and Ettingshausen 1879
†Pteris dakotensis Lesquereux 1891
†Pteris elegans Newberry 1882
†Pteris eocenica Gardner and Ettingshausen 1879
†Pteris erosa Lesquereux 1878
†Pteris glossopteroides Dawson 1882
†Pteris hookeri Heer 1863
†Pteris idahoensis Knowlton 1898
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Invalid names: Pteris calabazensis Dorf 1930 [objective synonym]
†Pteris inquirenda Berry 1918
†Pteris linearis Knowlton 1918
Pteris mertensioides Willdenow 1810
†Pteris pseudopinnaeformis Lesquereux 1878
†Pteris russellii Newberry 1882
†Pteris sitkensis Heer 1869
Pteris stenophylla Wallich 1829
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available